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Table 1 Number of genes for specific metabolic and signalling pathways identified in the zebra finch genome that were present in the transcriptome assembly presented here.

From: Digital gene expression analysis of the zebra finch genome

GO number

Biological process

Total # zebra finch genes

# present in this analysis

% represented

Mean Ï„ (95% CI)

GO:0006096

Glycolysis

31

37

84

0.41 (0.30 - 0.51)

GO:0006094

Gluconeogenesis

7

6

86

0.56 (0.25 - 0.86)

GO:0006098

Pentose Phosphate

8

7

88

0.44 (0.31 - 0.56)

GO:0006101

Citrate metabolic processes

2

2

100

0.52 (NA)

GO:0007224

Hedgehog signalling pathways

15

7

47

0.50 (0.38 - 0.62)

GO:0007259

JAK/STAT cascade

8

5

63

0.55 (NA)

GO:0007219

Notch signalling

19

13

68

0.53 (0.42 - 0.65)

GO:0016055

WNT signalling

48

20

42

0.51 (0.38 - 0.64)

GO:0002224

Toll like receptor signalling

6

3

50

0.67 (NA)

-

MHC genes

16

10

62

0.60 (0.40 - 0.80)

  1. Number of MHC related genes included in this study is also given. The mean index of tissue specificity of expression (Ï„) and its 95% CI (when more than two Ï„ values) for each pathway is also given.